Multi-Million Investment in Spain
Industrial gases specialist Messer has put a new production plant
into operation in El Morell (Tarragona, Spain). The company has
invested €42 million in its Spanish subsidiary's new plant. Messer is
massively expanding its capacities in Europe and Asia: "Over the period
to 2010, we are investing a total of around €700 million in gas
production, mostly in the context of long-term customer contracts,"
explains Stefan Messer, owner and CEO of the family business. The new
air separation plant, one of the largest in Spain, is connected to its
own 90-kilometre long pipeline network that supplies the leading
chemical and petrochemical companies at the Tarragona industrial
complex. The plant has a daily production capacity of 550 tons of
oxygen, 900 tons of nitrogen and 26 tons of argon. Messer Ibérica
operates a gas cylinder filling plant in Vilaseca, the only one in
Spain that uses 300-bar technology. In a few months, another filling
plant is due to go into operation in the province of Alicante.
The
gases produced by Messer are used in almost 300 different applications,
including in the medical sector. Messer has also received a license
from the Spanish health authority to produce medical gases at the new
plant. This will enable the company to increase supplies of these
products and widen its customer base primarily in Catalonia.
